Last Updated or created 2024-01-22
I made my own Mqtt to speech thingy in the past.
Sending a text to a mqtt topic would be picked up by my domoticz raspberry and using a bash script the topic payload was converted to speech and being played on a connected speaker.
This speaker migrated to my Home Assistant NUC.
So i changed the speech engine.
Beside this migration, i’ve started using the HA voice assistant capabilities.
This was a major impact/project in 2023.
I’m not going to talk about configuring this .. There are many good YT tutorials and forum topics about this.
https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/
This is the device: a ESP32 pico, Microphone, leds and Speaker are being used for this sound assistant.
(It uses ESPHOME)
Back to the speaker being hooked-up to my HA NUC.
Install the addon PicoTTS (speech synthesis)
configuration.yaml
# Text to speech tts: - platform: picotts # My part input_text: mqttspeech: name: mqttspeech initial: ""
Then install notified addon
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